Emile Ou De L' Education De Jean Jacque Rousseau

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Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ÉMILE *** Produced by Al Haines Heath's Pedagogical Library-4 ÉMILE: OR, CONCERNING EDUCATION BY JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU EXTRACTS CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PEDAGOGY FOUND IN THE FIRST THREE BOOKS; WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY JULES STEEG, DÉPUTÉ, PARIS, FRANCE TRANSLATED BY ELEANOR WORTHINGTON FORMERLY OF THE COOK COUNTY (ILL.) NORMAL SCHOOLC. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON - NEW YORK - CHICAGO

.The centr'tl argument of this pape'r is that Jean-Jacques Rousseau held a fundame~tally tragic vision of reality, based on. individual behaviour in society. The topie is approached through examining Rousseau's theory'of language which embodies 4.his political, anthropological and artistic concerns. The paper concludes that Rousseau believed that the indivi-dual i8 destined to live in. as the Contrat Social attempt ta perish. resolve this dilernrna, Rousseau was ultimately unable to develop a mechànism of reform that.

The clauses of this contract are so determined by the nature of the act that the slightest modification would make them vain and ineffective; so that, although they have perhaps never been formally set forth, they are everywhere the same and everywhere tacitly admitted and recognised, until, on the violation of the social compact, each regains his original rights and resumes his natural liberty, while losing the conventional liberty in favour of which he renounced it. These clauses, properly understood, .